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The prescriptive forms of the art world, as in the real world, alienate us from ourselves and our neighbors. It’s normal to make art. This is a manifest truth that is obscured by the institutional imperative to contain and monopolize awe.

An essay: Why founders fail, despite being good at coding and high IQ. Being mathematically smart hurts startup founders. Math doesn’t account for emotions, and this is why devs easily build useful products but fail to get to Product Market Fit in 99% cases. Imagine you’re building a building to sell. As a good builder, you put great effort into... See more

Yet, the definition of art hasn’t changed in 100 years, as W. David Marx explained in our recent conversation: “The best way to understand art is against kitsch. Kitsch is things that are made based on existing expectations of your audience. Usually it appeals to sentimentality because that's a universal aesthetic reaction. But art is something tha... See more

If someone is consistently getting good results even though they're obviously doing it wrong, it means there's something you're missing about how the world works.